The US Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced today the award of a broadband infrastructure investment grant to the California Broadband Cooperative, Inc. (CBC). The grant, totaling $81.1 million, will fund the construction of "Digital 395," a middle-mile fiber-optic network between Barstow, California and Carson City, Nevada. The 583-mile infrastructure project will directly connect more than 237 hospitals, schools, libraries, military bases, local governments, last-mile service providers, and other anchor institutions to a high-speed broadband network-as well as create, it is estimated, hundreds of local jobs.

On Thursday, August 12, the Mono County Health Department sent out a Mono-Gram alerting the public of a death from suspected hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS). A person had presented to Mammoth Hospital earlier that day in respiratory distress after being sick with flu-like symptoms for 4 days. He was airlifted to Renown Medical Center in Reno, but died shortly thereafter.

Today we received word that tests performed by both the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Viral and Rickettsial Diseases Laboratory and the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory were positive for hantavirus.

For more information visit http://monohealth.com or read the Mono Gram